International Players and MLB Free Agency

[seankemper]

I am playing a setup that contains all leagues, but I do not know how to acquire REAL international players from foreign leagues. During the offseason, I got a message saying that international free agents would join the free agency pool, but found out that they are all fictional players!!

For example, I can locate Otani in the japanese league, but I cannot sign him, and I do not know how he can join the free agency pool. He just stays in Japan making 50k getting his one-year contract automatically renewed after each season.

Please help.. this fictional foreign players is annoying when OOTP has all of the real players overseas.

[homerj]

There's a setting in the MLB league options for the generation of established international FAs. Those generated players are what you're seeing in the pool.

As far as how to get other players, you need to see what their rules are. *** is 9 years to be a FA, and they generally don't post until 2-3 years before that time(although they can post whenever they want). So it may be a couple more seasons before Otani hits the posted list.

[seankemper]

Thanks for the reply. So If I disable the generation of international FA players, then real international FAs will join the free agent pool?

[homerj]

Originally Posted by seankemper

Thanks for the reply. So If I disable the generation of international FA players, then real international FAs will join the free agent pool?

Yes, and I agree that teams could be more aggressive in posting players. I wouldn't expect to see Otani as a posted player in OOTP until probably 2020ish.

[seankemper]

Thank you. There are a lot of little nuances that the game is lacking, but overall a very solid product.